So a fair summary for what's happening with radio would be as follows: Local Radio - changing from Real to WMA for the low bitrate option Network Radio - staying as is, although presumably with WMA being added eventually as per previous comments on BBC blogs World Service - staying as is, but with the future addition of AAC Ironically, since Friday a number of the previously missing RealAudio programme streams appear to have come alive again! Presumably this is just their last swansong before they are sent to the great /dev/null in the sky... Andrew
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John O'Donovan Hi Andrew, generally these streams won't be available as RealAudio in the future. As you will no doubt have seen, the BBC is reducing it's dependency on Real Media as a delivery mechanism, though it will still be supported. Coyopa was designed to meet the needs of centralised National Radio rather than Local Radio and the distribution problems, source quality and encoding issues for Local Radio are very different, complicated and expensive to develop. Local Radio is still dependent on gathering the streams through a variety of methods and encoding at an aggregation point, and this aggregation point is at capacity at the moment. Cheers, jod
